KEEPING THE FAITH: The storm is coming, so is Jesus

By Dr. Roland Millien

Tuesday

Mar 6, 2018 at 1:42 PMMar 7, 2018 at 12:49 PM

“Let not your heart be troubled: Have faith in God and have faith in me. In my Father’s house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you? And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.” (John 14:1-3)

Thursday, March 1 was basically a calm day. And people as usual do what they normally do, going to work. Meanwhile all the major TV networks were busy reporting on the coming of the storm and the impact of it. Every hour the networks would stop the running program to inform the public that the storm is coming. The storm is coming, get ready. High tides, gusting winds; some towns may have as much as one foot of snow, and some may have between 3 to 5 inches of rain. The warning for the storm is all over the news. The storm is coming! The storm is coming! And you know what? The storm did come. And as predicted the storm left some damages in its path.

Friends, perhaps some of you are not paying attention to the coming of not another storm, but to the second coming of Jesus. You see, his second coming will not be predicted by any major networks, for the Bible says: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Mt. 24:44b), so Jesus is saying to be ready at all times for his second coming, not for a particular day. And, only the Bible, the word of God, would give the information needed to be ready for that day. Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

Friends, there is something else you need to know, Jesus said, in John 14: 3, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am there ye may be also. Jesus Christ would not lie. He promised to come again, and He will, but only for those who had received him as their personal savior.

The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31). Unfortunately, at his second coming, there are those who will be left behind, just because they did not believe in him. Friends, today is your day, accept Jesus and be saved.

Dr. Roland Millien, Ph.D, is the is director of leadership ministry at Zion Baptist Church of Stoughton, 414 Sumner St. He may be reached at 781-971-0202 or at http://zionbaptistchurch1.org.